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Jon Barr

Head of Global Development for KONE Americas at KONE

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Jon Barr is the head of Global Development for KONE Americas. In this role, he leads transformational information technology initiatives across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. His efforts focus on ensuring world-class processes and tools are in place to empower business results for KONE Americas. Jon has been with KONE Americas for over 16 years, and serves on the Americas Leadership Team.

Previously, Jon was the director of business processes for KONE Americas. Jon started his career with KONE working on the SAP Implementation project team. Prior to joining KONE, Jon was a manager for Accenture.

Jon received his degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.

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The Vertical Commute: Managing people flow in smart cities through IoT

The Vertical Commute: Managing people flow in smart cities through IoT

PresenterJon Barr -
Head of Global Development for KONE Americas,
KONE

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Elevators, escalators, doors and turnstiles used daily by billions of people worldwide are being transformed to drastically improve the flow of urban life and make cities better places to live.

With urban populations growing at a rapid rate, it’s as important as ever to leverage the data and tools available to us to design in a responsible way. Increasingly, connected buildings – via sensors and monitoring equipment – allow us to both modernize existing buildings and design new ones that create the most efficient use of space.

Urbanization is fundamentally changing the way buildings are being designed, built and managed.

Mobile technology, IoT applications, cloud-based services, and predictive building analytics can improve the way we travel within and between buildings, and allow better monitoring and real time analysis of people flow.

KONE’s partnerships with companies like Salesforce and IBM Watson are playing an increasingly important role in the management of People Flow and data throughout smart cities.